indesign-server

Reliably detecting text overflows in TextFrames in InDesign Server using javascript scripting?

I'm doing some Javascript scripting with InDesign Server at the moment. I'm having trouble trying to reliably detect overflows in TextFrames, after changing formatting or placing XML into them. For example, I've got a function that shrinks a 4 column TextFrame's height until the text overflows the frame. Then it increases the height unt...

Is it possible to execute JSX scripts from outside ExtendScript?

Typically when you're writing a .jsx script to automate an Adobe product (like InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop), you write, debug and execute the script from the ExtendScript IDE. Is it possible to bypass ExtendScript and run the script from an third program? I think Adobe products have a built-in JavaScript interpreter which ExtendS...